Conditional access system (CAS) is a key technical component in digital TV broadcasting through which TV op-erators manage the appropriate rights of different subscribers in order to protect their commercial benefits....Conditional access system (CAS) is a key technical component in digital TV broadcasting through which TV op-erators manage the appropriate rights of different subscribers in order to protect their commercial benefits. The normal digital TV receiver can only receive and decode the pay TV programs scrambled by one specific CAS. In this paper, the authors proposed a smartcard conditional access interface (SCAI) scheme in order to make the digital TV receiver be a common receiving platform independent of any specific CAS employed at the broadcasting head-end. As a result, it only needs to include a common condi-tional access software package (CCAP) without any requirement of hardware modification in the receiver. Comparison between the two mentioned DVB-CI-based schemes showed that the cost of such kind receiver is greatly reduced. The main design points of the proposed scheme and its reference implementation’s architecture are presented in this paper. This scheme is also one of the candidate national standards for Chinese digital TV broadcasting industry.展开更多
ZTE Corporation, a leading globa provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, announced the Brazilian launch of N290, a low-cost cell phone with digital TV in Brazil on April 21,2010
IN August, residents of the small Nigerian village of Hulumi got switched onto a level of entertainment they had never seen before. Digital satellite TV had arrived and its launch was celebrated with much fanfare and ...IN August, residents of the small Nigerian village of Hulumi got switched onto a level of entertainment they had never seen before. Digital satellite TV had arrived and its launch was celebrated with much fanfare and a feeling of inclusiveness,展开更多
In this paper, I described the methods that I used for the creation of Xlets, which are Java applets that are developed for the IDTV environment;and the methods for online data retrieval and processing that I utilized...In this paper, I described the methods that I used for the creation of Xlets, which are Java applets that are developed for the IDTV environment;and the methods for online data retrieval and processing that I utilized in these Xlets. The themes that I chose for the Xlets of the IDTV applications are Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning;Recent Seismic Activity Report;and Emergency Services. The online data regarding the Recent Seismic Activity Report application are provided by the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI) of Bogazici University in Istanbul;while the online data for the Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning and the Emergency Services applications are provided by the Godoro website which I used for storing (and retrieving by the Xlets) the earthquake and tsunami early warning simulation data, and the DVB network subscriber data (such as name and address information) for utilizing in the Emergency Services (Police, Ambulance and Fire Department) application. I have focused on the methodologies to use digital television as an efficient medium to convey timely and useful information regarding seismic warning data to the public, which forms the main research topic of this paper.展开更多
This paper presents a healthcare application for Brazilian digital television,its main purposes and its reception tests with end users.This is an applied research for testing the scope of the Global ITV project funded...This paper presents a healthcare application for Brazilian digital television,its main purposes and its reception tests with end users.This is an applied research for testing the scope of the Global ITV project funded by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development(CNPq)and the European community which has developed a hybrid broadband and broadcasting platform.展开更多
Cherishing a dream of enabling every African family ＂to afford digital TV, watch digital TV and enjoy digital TV,＂ PangXinxing, head of StarTimes, a Beijing-based digital TV solutions provider, embarked on a mission...Cherishing a dream of enabling every African family ＂to afford digital TV, watch digital TV and enjoy digital TV,＂ PangXinxing, head of StarTimes, a Beijing-based digital TV solutions provider, embarked on a mission in Africa in 2002.展开更多
THE president of the Guinean National Communications Council, Martine Conde, had a busy but fruitful trip to China in June this year. She attended the Fourth African Digital TV Development Seminar where delegates and ...THE president of the Guinean National Communications Council, Martine Conde, had a busy but fruitful trip to China in June this year. She attended the Fourth African Digital TV Development Seminar where delegates and oF flcials discussed how best to further expand the coverage of digital TV and build a friendly industrial environment for digitalization. She also took the opportunity to lobby for investments to develop Guinea＇s digital projects. To her satisfaction, the Export-Import Bank of China expressed willingness to cooperate in the area.展开更多
Digital broadcasting is a novel paradigm for the next generation broadcasting. Its goal is to provide not only better quality of pictures but also a variety of services that is impossible in traditional airwaves broad...Digital broadcasting is a novel paradigm for the next generation broadcasting. Its goal is to provide not only better quality of pictures but also a variety of services that is impossible in traditional airwaves broadcasting. One of the important factors for this new broadcasting environment is the interoperability among broadcasting applications since the environment is distributed. Therefore the broadcasting metadata becomes increasingly important and one of the metadata standards for a digital broadcasting is TV-Anytime metadata. TV-Anytime metadata is defined using XML schema, so its instances are XML data. In order to fulfill interoperability, a standard query language is also required and XQuery is a natural choice. There are some researches for dealing with broadcasting metadata. In our previous study, we have proposed the method for efficiently managing the broadcasting metadata in a service provider. However, the environment of a Set-Top Box for digital broadcasting is limited such as low-cost and low-setting. Therefore there are some considerations to apply general approaches for managing the metadata into the Set-Top Box. This paper proposes a method for efficiently managing the broadcasting metadata based on the Set-Top Box and a prototype of metadata management system for evaluating our method. Our system consists of a storage engine to store the metadata and an XQuery engine to search the stored metadata and uses special index for storing and searching. Our two engines are designed independently with hardware platform therefore these engines can be used in any low-cost applications to manage broadcasting metadata.展开更多
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文摘Conditional access system (CAS) is a key technical component in digital TV broadcasting through which TV op-erators manage the appropriate rights of different subscribers in order to protect their commercial benefits. The normal digital TV receiver can only receive and decode the pay TV programs scrambled by one specific CAS. In this paper, the authors proposed a smartcard conditional access interface (SCAI) scheme in order to make the digital TV receiver be a common receiving platform independent of any specific CAS employed at the broadcasting head-end. As a result, it only needs to include a common condi-tional access software package (CCAP) without any requirement of hardware modification in the receiver. Comparison between the two mentioned DVB-CI-based schemes showed that the cost of such kind receiver is greatly reduced. The main design points of the proposed scheme and its reference implementation’s architecture are presented in this paper. This scheme is also one of the candidate national standards for Chinese digital TV broadcasting industry.
文摘ZTE Corporation, a leading globa provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, announced the Brazilian launch of N290, a low-cost cell phone with digital TV in Brazil on April 21,2010
文摘IN August, residents of the small Nigerian village of Hulumi got switched onto a level of entertainment they had never seen before. Digital satellite TV had arrived and its launch was celebrated with much fanfare and a feeling of inclusiveness,
文摘In this paper, I described the methods that I used for the creation of Xlets, which are Java applets that are developed for the IDTV environment;and the methods for online data retrieval and processing that I utilized in these Xlets. The themes that I chose for the Xlets of the IDTV applications are Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning;Recent Seismic Activity Report;and Emergency Services. The online data regarding the Recent Seismic Activity Report application are provided by the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI) of Bogazici University in Istanbul;while the online data for the Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning and the Emergency Services applications are provided by the Godoro website which I used for storing (and retrieving by the Xlets) the earthquake and tsunami early warning simulation data, and the DVB network subscriber data (such as name and address information) for utilizing in the Emergency Services (Police, Ambulance and Fire Department) application. I have focused on the methodologies to use digital television as an efficient medium to convey timely and useful information regarding seismic warning data to the public, which forms the main research topic of this paper.
文摘This paper presents a healthcare application for Brazilian digital television,its main purposes and its reception tests with end users.This is an applied research for testing the scope of the Global ITV project funded by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development(CNPq)and the European community which has developed a hybrid broadband and broadcasting platform.
文摘Cherishing a dream of enabling every African family ＂to afford digital TV, watch digital TV and enjoy digital TV,＂ PangXinxing, head of StarTimes, a Beijing-based digital TV solutions provider, embarked on a mission in Africa in 2002.
文摘THE president of the Guinean National Communications Council, Martine Conde, had a busy but fruitful trip to China in June this year. She attended the Fourth African Digital TV Development Seminar where delegates and oF flcials discussed how best to further expand the coverage of digital TV and build a friendly industrial environment for digitalization. She also took the opportunity to lobby for investments to develop Guinea＇s digital projects. To her satisfaction, the Export-Import Bank of China expressed willingness to cooperate in the area.
文摘Digital broadcasting is a novel paradigm for the next generation broadcasting. Its goal is to provide not only better quality of pictures but also a variety of services that is impossible in traditional airwaves broadcasting. One of the important factors for this new broadcasting environment is the interoperability among broadcasting applications since the environment is distributed. Therefore the broadcasting metadata becomes increasingly important and one of the metadata standards for a digital broadcasting is TV-Anytime metadata. TV-Anytime metadata is defined using XML schema, so its instances are XML data. In order to fulfill interoperability, a standard query language is also required and XQuery is a natural choice. There are some researches for dealing with broadcasting metadata. In our previous study, we have proposed the method for efficiently managing the broadcasting metadata in a service provider. However, the environment of a Set-Top Box for digital broadcasting is limited such as low-cost and low-setting. Therefore there are some considerations to apply general approaches for managing the metadata into the Set-Top Box. This paper proposes a method for efficiently managing the broadcasting metadata based on the Set-Top Box and a prototype of metadata management system for evaluating our method. Our system consists of a storage engine to store the metadata and an XQuery engine to search the stored metadata and uses special index for storing and searching. Our two engines are designed independently with hardware platform therefore these engines can be used in any low-cost applications to manage broadcasting metadata.
